Tuesday, February 27, 2018

Shoppes on Patterson

Shoppes on Patterson is a cavernous series of rooms and booths filled with collectibles. Different people rent the individual spaces where everyone from college students to interior decorators go to find just the right accent pieces. From the sleek to common, there is something for everybody. The shoppes have been on Patterson Street, between the Coliseum and Holden Road, for about twenty years.

Today's photo was taken across the street in the parking lot of Reconsidered Goods. Sunday's view of a white building with the flat roofline, against the backdrop of a blue sky with puffy white clouds, was striking. This documentary approach to somewhat industrial images, with absence of action, juxtaposed with implied activity, is a nod to current trends in German photography.* Greensboro has some intriguing scenes that are fun to photograph. It would be interesting to see what photos German photographer Andreas Gursky would take on Patterson Avenue- were to come to Greensboro.